Alfred T. Goshaw, J. B. Duke Professor  

Office Location: 277 Physics
Office Phone: 919-660-2584
Email Address: goshaw@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Physics/faculty/goshaw

Specialties:
Experimental high energy physics

Research Categories: Experimental High Energy Physics

Research Description: Professor Goshaw current research is focused on the study of Nature's most massive particles, the W and Z bosons (carriers of the weak force) and the top quark (discovered in 1994). These studies are carried out using 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions provided by Fermilab's Tevatron, and analyzed using the CDF detector. Current studies concentrate on measurements of the tri-linear coupling among the photon, W boson and Z boson, as tests of the non-abelian character of the electroweak force carriers. His research in the next five years will be focused on searches for phenomena beyond those predicted by the Standard Model, using precision measurements of the production of high energy photons, leptons and penatrating neutral particles such as neutrinos. In 2008, this resarch at the Tevatron will be extended to the high energy frontier using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. The CDF Collaboration, Model-Independent Search for New Physics at CDF, Phys. Rev. D Rapid Communications (Submitted, December 11, 2007) .
  2. The CDF Collaboration, Observation of WZ Production, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 161801 (2007) .
  3. A.T. Goshaw (with the CDF Collboration), Search for W and Z bosons in the reaction pbar+p -> two jets + photon at root(s) = 1.8 TeV, Phys. Rev. D73 012001 (2006) .
  4. with the CDF Collaboration, Search for excited and exotic electrons in the eg decay channel in pbar p collisions at 1.96 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 94 (2005), pp. 101802 .
  5. with the CDF COllaboration, Search for long-lived doubly-charged Higgs bosons in pbar p collisons at 1.96 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 95 (2005), pp. 071801 .

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Jay Dittmann  
  • Susanne Hauger  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Andrea Bocci (October, 2005 - present)  
  • Yimei Huang (2002/05-2003/12)  
  • Peter Tamburello (1997/09-2002/05)